Join Alicia Ostriker and Rabbi Waskow for this virtual program, as they dance their way into Muriel Rukeyser’s great poem “Akiba.” Alicia is the most eloquent and insightful midrashic poet of our generation. She has graced us with poetic sparks that fly upward when she hammers on the rock of Torah.

Rukeyser uses the life of the great Rabbi Akiba to explore the great spiritual journeys of our lives — as individuals and as societies — into inward and outward freedom. Akiba led three other rabbis in a mystical and risky adventure into “Pardes” — The Orchard — and came out to convince the Sanhedrin that the Song of Songs was the Holy of Holies in all of Jewish wisdom.

This is the third of a three-part series entitled, “Beyond Sinai: The Spirit Keeps Rising.” Information for session 1 can be found here and information for session 2 can be found here.

The series is offered as a single dance. Please register for the full series by clicking here.